Nice article on the closing of the Cube. Do you know why hundreds of us came back for the closing ceremony? Because working there was like being part of an extended family. The work was hard, challenging, but extremely rewarding. All of us who have gone on to other jobs agree that nothing can compare to what we did together in the Cube.

— David B. Miller, San Jose

Let’s hope that some day the whole story can be told.

I wish you would write something good about the Water District. I have been a hardworking employee for the past 9 years, starting my day at 7:30 a.m. I work 9-hour days to make sure you and the community have clean, safely treated water and flood protection as needed. Please look at the glass half full of clean, safely treated water instead of it half empty.

— Bradie Sue Grimaldo, San Jose

OK. Do I have to downgrade the Golden Spigot to brass?

I read your column this morning about the water board elections and its other shenanigans. Actually, I read every story on the water district board — inarguably the worst good-ol’-boy board in the valley. All I can say is, keep it up. No one has paid any attention to it and it is in my view corrupt.

— Libby Lane, Los Gatos

I’ll put you down in the glass-empty category.

The senseless death of Leyda Montufar has been weighing on my mind. It was incredible that a CHP officer would pursue anyone around the populated streets of downtown, and the fact that he did it just for an illegal right-hand turn was unconscionable. In this electronic age, there have to be better solutions.

— Ann Webb, San Jose

People usually run from police because they have done something very bad. It is ridiculous to tell police not to give chase unless they know what that bad thing is. You say you want to avoid creating new victims. The better way to honor Leyda is to educate people and convince them they should stop for police.

— Max Steinke, San Jose.

If only they would listen.

I have come around to support Proposition 19. However, you might be naive in thinking that passage of Prop. 19 will end Mexican gangs or cartels from using remote territory for their farms. It might increase such activities, as this would give them a shield against serious threat of prosecution, except for trespass.

— N. Eric Jorgensen, San Jose

Fair enough. But armed thugs add to the cost for cartels.

Pot is the final element in flushing California down the pot. It was a good 40 years or so of being envied by other Americans but Californians will have truly hit rock bottom when they have legal pot. I live better in Colorado then I did in the Bay Area. Please write a law that somehow prevents liberals from moving out of California.

— Jerry Bennett, Fort Collins, Colo.

Wait. Isn’t “Rocky Mountain High” a Colorado state song?

It’s very refreshing to see a journalist not run with the government propaganda on pot and tell the truth about the war on drugs.

In addition to evacuating 10 neighboring homes, deputies restricted pedestrian and vehicle traffic in the area while the sheriff's office bomb squad "safely disposed" of the explosives, officials said.